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Thomas Egense
I have a math blog and I am generally interested in all science. I use math to create art, check my album. I try to find unique content for my posts.
Occupation: IT Specialist(J2EE)
Location: Aarhus
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2013-05-15 14:05:03 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 10 +1s)
A #longread on the recent proof of the odd Goldbach conjecture, computer assisted proofs, and simulation versus analytics for theorists and modelers. The curse of computing is building quick heuristics, examples, or verifications at the expense of a slower and deeper understanding.
#TheEGG /cc +Niel de Beaudrap, +Sina Salek, and +Jacob Scott
2013-05-14 07:25:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
Busy day in analytic number theory; Harald Helfgott has complemented his previous paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5252 (obtaining minor arc estimates for the odd Goldbach problem) with major arc estimates, thus finally obtaining an unconditional proof of the odd Goldbach conjecture that every odd number greater than five is the sum of three primes. (This improves upon a result of mine from last year http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/every-odd-integer-larger-than-1-is-the-sum-of-at-most-five-primes/ showing that such numbers are the sum of five or fewer primes, though at the cost of a significantly lengthier argument.) As with virtually all successful partial results on the Goldbach problem, the argument proceeds by the Hardy-Littlewood-Vinogradov circle method; the challenge is to make all the estimates completely effective and to optimise all parameters (which, among other things, requires a c... more »
2013-05-13 12:24:43 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
Recall that the Twin Prime Conjecture states that there are infinitely many primes p and q such that | p - q | = 2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_prime
This has been, to put it mildly, EXTREMELY HARD to prove. An equivalent statement is that there are infinitely many primes p and q such that | p - q | < 3, and so one could try to arrive at a weaker statement, where 3 is replaced by some number N.
Conjecture(N): There are infinitely many primes p and q such that | p - q | < N.
Note that this is very non-obvious, because it may be that the prime numbers get more and more spaced out as they get larger, in the sense that the minimum distance between primes in [M,∞) grows as M grows. We do know that this spacing grows at most linearly, by Bertrand's posulate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand's_postulate
which s... more »
2013-05-10 11:22:57 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 8 +1s)
+Jordan Ellenberg and +Cathy O'Neil for the follow up of the ABC-conjecture proof by Shinichi Mochizuki. I am still awaiting new information about the validation process.
This conjecture (if proven) will be an enormous mathematical breakthrough, but not because it is useful in any practical context what-so-ever, but because that if the conjecture is true, then there is something we do not understand about the relation between addition and multiplication of numbers that seems very odd. The article also does a nice job of explaining the conjecture in details.
My previous updates about the ABC-conjecture:
Nov. 26, 2012: https://plus.google.com/103541237243849171137/posts/WLLJaPqBQWJ
Oct. 12, 2012: https://plus.google.com/103541237243849171137/posts/WLLJaPqBQWJ
Sep 30, 2012: https://plus.google.com/103541237243849171137/posts/PoigXZceUrP
2013-04-30 09:43:35 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
+Philip Plait for the best news today. How on earth could this take 5 years to debunk officially? Are politicians and even the military really that stupid? (Don't answer). It was sold to over 20 countries, many of these was poor countries that should have used their money on something far better that would actually improve the situation for the country. Besides a waste of time and money, the false confidence of these devices created ended up killing hundreds that could have been saved if the bomb detection mechanics was something that worked such as sniffer dogs etc.
One of my heroes, James Randi (+James Randi Educational Foundation) has been shouting foul right since he heard of the detectors of course, and he has never been wrong. Earn 1M $ to prove him wrong. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US$_One_Million_Paranormal_Challenge )
More information about the 'Bomb detector de... more »
2013-04-09 12:10:15 (6 comments, 40 reshares, 38 +1s)
Kids are too spoiled today. Now they can play video-games and learn to program at the same time.
It is an interesting choice they decide to teach Java as the programming language in the game, it is far from the most simple language to learn, but on the other hand is is the most widely used programming language today. So far many similar projects have used artificial pseudo-language like Scratch etc.
CodeSpells blog for more information: http://codespells.blogspot.dk/
2013-03-21 16:31:43 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)
Found the following curious arithmetic progression(AP) of squares.
782178217821782178217821785971²
1000000000000000000000000004849²
1178217821782178217821782183931²
The step value is :
388197235565140672483089896912467405156357219880403891099960
The above progression is curious because of the repeating pattern 7821 in both the first and last number of the progression. The middle number appear in a total of 40 different AP of squares but none of the others shows any kind of patterns. And you are right, this information has no use at all and it is probably just a freak coincidence or there is an explanation I can not find. Anyway, just wanted to share my new favorite AP of squares.
EDITED:
+Chris Breederveld nagged me for not trying to explain it so here is a little more explanation.
There is a 1-1 relation between a non-trivial de... more »
2013-03-17 21:14:22 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 9 +1s)
Another great british mathematical documentary called "Beautiful Young Minds". It is from 2007, but I had not heard of it it before.
We follow a handful of hopeful young mathematicians fighting for a place in the IMO (International Mathematical Olympiad). The pressure on these kids is immense. To some of them, mathematics is the only success they have had in life and enjoy, and they do not want to fail so close to the goal. Many of them have different degrees of autism/Asperger’s from mild to 'very severe'. And it is interesting to see how different their autism manifest itself - from being just shy to extreme arrogance.
There are a total of 6 episodes each of 15 minutes and I guarantee a very happy ending :) I found a little more information about the 'hero" in the documentary. He is just so nice, kind and lovable.
James Daniel Ligthwing: htt... more »
2013-03-14 07:19:39 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)
Pie day. Thank you +Mads Villadsen #officecake #piday
2013-03-10 19:56:54 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 17 +1s)
It's the sort of abstract puzzle that keeps a scientist awake at night: Can you predict how three objects will orbit each other in a repeating pattern? In the 300 years since this "three-body problem" was first recognized, just three families of solutions have been found. Now, two physicists have discovered 13 new families. It's quite a feat in mathematical physics, and it could conceivably help astrophysicists understand new planetary systems.
The three-body problem dates back to the 1680s. Isaac Newton had already shown that his new law of gravity could always predict the orbit of two bodies held together by gravity—such as a star and a planet—with complete accuracy. The orbit is basically always an ellipse. However, Newton couldn't come up with a similar solution for the case of three bodies orbiting one another. For 2 centuries, scientists tried different tacks until the... more »
2013-03-08 07:00:57 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)
OMG.. It's a Cat MAP.
http://sites.zsl.org/maps/catmap
2013-02-17 15:12:38 (3 comments, 7 reshares, 15 +1s)
Another excellent mathematical documentary also found by +Thrinayani R.
It is about the famous mathematician "Paul Erdős" who was quite a character, even for a mathematician...
2013-02-17 15:08:37 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 6 +1s)
Thanks to +Thrinayani R for finding the following very good mathematical documentary movie about "Fermat's Last Theorem". I wonder why I have never seen it before, but probably because I did not know it existed :)
I just finished watching it and enjoyed watching it, it is rare to find this good documentary about mathematics.
2013-02-01 17:55:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
Added photos to Retro Gamers Challenge #3: Time Bandit.
2013-01-23 10:45:22 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 40 +1s)
My mathematical fractal arts pictures now on display at Egaa Gymnasium(Denmark) .
This photograph only shows the 5 big canvas pictures (120cm*120cm) of the total of 29 pictures on display. High schools seems a good target for future exhibitions due to the mathematical educational value of the exhibitions. I have agreed to give a free lecture for the students about the mathematics behind the technique, which in fact it is simple enough for most of the student to understand. Basically it is just mappings from the plane into the plane and composite functions. Hopefully this will excite a mathematical curiosity in some of the students...
2013-01-17 21:45:14 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)
For Amusement Only: the life and death of the American arcade http://bit.ly/UspoLD
2013-01-11 06:43:35 (3 comments, 6 reshares, 8 +1s)
The team behind the AMAZING educational mathematical "Dimensions" episodes ( https://plus.google.com/u/0/103541237243849171137/posts/TRYU5meokUp ) have now finished their work on a completely new topic. This time about "chaos" there are 9 completely new videos each of 13 minutes. I must say this topic have a special interest to me due to my fractal art, I am very excited.
Any mathematical educator should watch these and consider what parts to use in class since these videos are so fabulous made and everyone watching them will be more fascinated my mathematics.
I have not yet seen any of the episodes myself as I just got notified by Jos Leys ( www.josleys.com ), who is on the team making the videos. He is already famous for his mathematical art if you missed it.
(sorry, no picture generated by G+ the link). But please click it!
part 1: h... more »
2013-01-10 14:22:59 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)
The Aperiodical ( http://aperiodical.com/) has awarded the online Mathematical Prizes of 2012 for several categories. Read all about the nominees for each category. Maybe you missed some great mathematical online content in 2012, just like I did. Now you have the chance to read it.
I personally think the random walks visualizations should have won the
best diagram category.
Categories:
Best diagram
Most coincidental numerical coincidence
Most or least plausible press release formula
Most generously worded press release
Least efficient mathematical instrument
Least or most worthwhile Alan Turing tie-in
Weirdest story
Best podcast
Highest-ranking mathematician
Best knitting
Most or least useful maths website
Trolliest troll
Most ubiquitous popular mathematician
2012-12-29 16:37:32 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)
I StumbleUpon´ed the following article about how mathematicians are often portrayed as crazy in Hollywood movies and thinking back this reflect my own observations. You can argue that physicist are often the "mad scientist" building doomsday devices, but he is just doing this for evil. But for someone to be completely mental, you need a mathematician, in Hollywood movies.
The picture I picked for the preview is not really related to the article or other pictures in the article, but it was way more interesting than the others. It shows a common situation at my work as a scientist (NOT!), but seriously Hollywood need to make science more sexy.
2012-12-24 09:43:00 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)
I've just gone through +Dana Ernst's "Resource" pages which has a bunch of great math stuff in one spot on there.
It include a list of cool blogs (by people worth circling like +Theron Hitchman ~ http://theronhitchman.wordpress.com/, +Patrick Honner ~ http://mrhonner.com/ , +Bret Benesh ~ http://symmetricblog.wordpress.com/ and others...). Most of the blogs I had already subscribed to but 1 or 2 I hadn't, for example I'd not seen +Raymond Johnson's blog ~ http://blog.mathed.net/ yet which looks pretty good. Those people are definitely worth circling btw if you haven't already.
It's not just blogs though, Dana has put together a very nice list of resources. I really need to update my own site with a similar list (I've at least linked to Dana's Resources page for now)...
#sciencesunday
2012-12-24 09:29:25 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)
I have a Cand. Scient in Mathematics from Aarhus University. My thesis was about Graph Coloring problems. (Interval colorings). In my spare time I create mathematical art and try to solve unsolved mathematical recreational puzzles often using using brute force CPU power.
I have a math blog and my post on G+ are almost solely scientific with focus on mathematics. At the university I was assisting teacher in various courses and I have an interest in mathematical education. I try to make mathematics more accessible and fun to make more people able to enjoy mathematics - they do not know what they are missing!
2012-12-14 07:02:06 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)
The Museum of Mathematics opened last night. See the video!
2012-12-04 20:48:10 (4 comments, 6 reshares, 18 +1s)
Painting with mathematics!
This is my first submission to #sciencesunday ( +Rajini Rao ) and this post will be self-contained, so I will repeat information I have explained in my previous posts.
About one year ago I finished my own computer program capable of creating 'Fractal Flames'. Fractal Flames was discovered in 1992 and are not directly related to the traditional 'Mandelbrot fractals' , which was discovered in 1973, but they share the same unpredictable chaotic element and use of recursion.
With Fractal Flames you can create quite amazing and complex pictures generated by a very simple formular. One of my goals was to just to play with mathematics and have fun, but also to show how visually beautiful mathematics can be. You have a little artistic freedom when creating your own Fractal Flames program and one of my goals was to give the ... more »
2012-11-29 06:36:41 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)
Sorry, this is a little long, but quite interesting;-)
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
Here are the winners:
1. Cashtration <#> (n <#> .): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
2. Ignoranus <#> : A person who's both stupid and an asshole <#> .
3. Intaxicaton <#> : Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
4. Reintarnation <#> : Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
5. Bozone <#> (n <#> .): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone <... more »
2012-11-26 10:23:31 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 20 +1s)
When you repeat addition you get multiplication. When you repeat multiplication you get exponentiation. And when you repeat that, you get tetration!
Let's follow Donald Knuth and write exponentiation as ↑. Then 4 cubed is
4↑3 = 4 × (4 × 4) = 64
We are multiplying 4 by itself 3 times. Next comes tetration, which we write as ↑↑. Here's how it works:
4↑↑3 = 4 ↑ (4 ↑ 4) = 4 ↑ 256 ≈ 1.3 × 10¹⁵⁴
We are raising 4 to itself 3 times. Before the parentheses didn't matter, but now they do: we put the parentheses all the way to the right, since (a ↑ b) ↑ c equals a ↑ (b × c) while a ↑ (b ↑ c) is something really new.
As you can see, tetration lets us describe quite large numbers. 10↑↑10 is much bigger than the number of atoms in the observable universe.
In fact, 10↑↑10 is so big that you couldn't write it d... more »
2012-11-26 17:08:40 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 9 +1s)
The article is a few weeks old, but contains the latest development I have heard about cracking the proof of the ABC-conjecture published by Mochizuki.
The first weeks after Mochizuki published his proof in late August, the math community reacted slow and with well understood scepticism. But now there seems to be some movement towards coordinating and assigning a team to validate and understand the proof. The Clay Mathematics Institute at Oxford etc. has agreed to sponsoring a workshop.
Recently the scepticism about the proof has grown even higher for two reasons:
1) Mathematicians have realized how completely new, unknown and immense the mathematical universe created by Mochizuki is. Besides answering one of the top most important mathematical question, creating this completely new branch of mathematics is a phenomenal task by just one person, and who knows what else ... more »
2012-11-26 07:20:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)
*The History Of Caturday*
Why are all these cats in my stream every Saturday? Because it's Caturday Folks! But just what IS the furry friend holiday all about?
Caturday has been around since roughly 2006. For some perspective that's older than the public version of Facebook, Twitter and almost as old as You Tube. The tradition is pretty simple. On Saturdays, people on various websites, (starting with 4chan and gaining mass popularity on site "I Can Has Cheezburger") people would post pictures of cats with funny text know as "lolspeak". Lolspeak is a type of broken English, generally grammatically incorrect, almost a type of "baby talk", that can often included well known internet memes. This adds to the humor as you can sort of imagine the cat speaking in that "child like way" to explain the situation it is displayed in.
... more »
2012-11-16 22:42:15 (11 comments, 3 reshares, 26 +1s)
30 hours of CPU used to animate this fractal flame. It is one of my more complex fractal flames I wanted to see come alive. I have printed this fractal on canvas in 120cm*120cm and it turned out really well.
The really interesting part only last 10 seconds and this is the part where the flame is identical the complex flame I found. I should have investigated the behavior better before starting the rendering job. Next time I will focus on a smaller interval around the interesting part and with more details.
But this just shows what I experience all the time when looking for new fractals.
All the parameters, typical 20 and up to 100, must all fit together in a very tight
interval for the fractal to 'appear' from all the chaos. And this is why it rare is to find a fractal like this one, the search-space is simply too infinite and the unique and beautiful structures are... more »
2012-11-11 17:45:21 (3 comments, 5 reshares, 7 +1s)
Another one for my wish list this christmas. You do not need a degree in mathematics to understand the topics, just a general interest in mathematics.
Thanks to +Christian Perfect for the book review. G+ math-superstar +Terence Tao has written one of the topics, will be interesting to read.
2012-11-09 12:28:57 (4 comments, 18 reshares, 21 +1s)
New research once again proves that if you want to have a group of people produce the best results, using money as a motivater is not going to give the best result. Quite counterintuitive really.
Instead giving people more freedom, autonomy and making their job more fun gives better results. And there are plenty of example from the software industry this indeed is correct. The following 3 very successful software companies have been using this strategy and come up with some revolutionizing innovations that would probably NOT have emerged under normal work conditions:
1. Google
2. Valve
3. Atlassian
Anyone know exampes of sucessful non-software companies using this strategy?
Check the brilliantly illustrated video below to understand what really motivates people.
2012-11-09 09:10:28 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 20 +1s)
A few more photographs from my exhibition at Art Couture in Dubai showing my mathematical fractal art pictures. I had 13 of my pictures on display at Art Couture and I last week I went to Dubai for an excellent holiday swimming with dolphins and seeing lots of other amazing stuff. And of course I also visited the gallery and gave a 1 hour speech about my art for about 20 people in the Tee Lounge room.
In my speech I also addressed the relationship between mathematics and nature itself. Why are some mathematical structures also seen in nature? Fractals etc. and why Fibonacci numbers occur very often in nature, and the relation from Fibonacci numbers to the golden ratio.
My speech went pretty well, and no one was bored to death. But I also kept the mathematical details to a minimum as this was an art presentation. The audience had many good questions of course. One of the harder ones w... more »
2012-10-18 12:49:10 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)
Some months ago I posted about the Postmodernism Generator ( https://plus.google.com/u/0/103541237243849171137/posts/QoQhUNKm8kH ) that automatic generated articles disqused as highly
intellectual work, but was in fact utter gibbersh. I had much fun generating articles and reading passages from them
Now something similar has been made for mathematical articles, so it is now very easy to impersonate a mathematician (to non-mathematicians at least) since you can put your own name on it.
The articles have perfect mathematical LaTeX layout with Definitions, Lemma, Theorems etc. structure. And it also generates the references-section with fake references, some of them also published by you.
Here is a list of article titles it generated with me as author:
THE CONVEXITY OF SYMMETRIC FIELDS
CONTRA-NONNEGATIVE, QUASI-LINEAR SCALARS FOR A BIJECTIVE ... more »
2012-10-16 14:20:13 (7 comments, 9 reshares, 25 +1s)
More creations from my evil laboratory. All the fractals has been grown and evolved over several generations, picking the best one from each generation as seed for the next generation(100 in each generation), repeating this for 3-5 generations. But most often, probably 95% of the times, I discard the fractal and all generations, because it does not evolve into anything really interesting, not even if I grow it for even more generations. I am now using 5-20 hours on creating a single fractal, while it earlier rarely took more than 5 hours. Guess that is because I have become more picky and want to find something new each time.
2012-12-04 20:09:24 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)
13 of my mathematical art pictures are currently being exhibited at Al Badia Golf Club in Dubai ( http://www.albadiagolfclub.ae/ ) . They will be on display until November 8, 2012. Below you can see a few photographs taken at the gallery.
On October 31 I will be giving a 45 minutes presentation of my art at Al Badia where I will talk about creative process working with the fractal flames technique. The speech will have a mathematical aspect and I will explain why many natural phenomenons also can be found in fractals and the Fibonacci numbers seen in nature. So if you happen to be in Dubai at that time, you are welcome at the exhibition.
Art Couture: http://www.artcoutureuae.com/
2012-09-28 17:48:11 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)
The Elsevier boycott is having an effect! Now the grumpy giant has made old issues of many math journals freely available online. Why just math journals? Because we're the ones who are making the most noise! Folks from many other sciences have joined the boycott - but you need some leaders in your field to get aggressive if you want to get Elsevier to do you a favor like this.
Of course, all of this is just a smokescreen to distract us from the really big issue: an oligopoly of science publishers rapidly pushing up journal prices and driving university libraries broke. For more on that, try:
http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/category/serials-crisis/
2012-09-26 17:24:01 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)
Google Globe - another google experiment was released just yesterday.
It tracks and shows various weather phenomena like storms and ocean currents etc. Google-globe use real time data but also has data from the last 2 years.
It is interactive and fun to play with. It seems to work in both Firefox and Chrome but not IE.
2012-09-25 12:32:02 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
The release date of Solr4.0 is getting very close!
Unfortunately almost in last minute I tracked down a serious bug with
+Toke Eskildsen . The bug was too severe so the
community voted it had to be fixed before the release. Luckily the bug was fixed within a few hours, but the release candidate had to be aborted. A new release candidate will probably be ready very soon. Sorry for delaying your long awaited Solr4.0 release.
The bug was quite interesting. If you used document boost and multivalued fields, the boost for the multivalued fields would be applied several times (multiplied together) resulting in insane ranking-score for some documents in the order of 1E10, compared to normal ranking-scores of 0-20. This bug is not present in Solr3.6, but was introduced almost 1 year ago in the
Solr4.0 branch. I am surprised it had been undetected for so long, but maybe most ... more »
2012-09-18 09:39:33 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)
The general 2D traveling Salesman Problem is NP Hard and ever finding a fast algoritmic solution is probably unlikely. But 2 days ago a special case of the problem called the "XY Travelling Salesman Problem" has been solved in polynomial time.
Notice if the cities are placed on a straight line, the problem is trivial.
The XY travelling salesman problem is restriction of the general TSP, where the cities are placed only on the x-axis and y-axis. (that is one 2 crossing lines). The salesman can still move in the plane and cross the first quadrant for fastest way between a point on the x-axis and y-axis.
The article is 13 pages long, but behind a paywall.
Remember all danish citizens can access all articles for free by using:
http://www.statsbiblioteket.dk/videnskabeligeartikler/
2012-09-30 14:28:34 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 10 +1s)
In a series of 4 highly technical papers, Shinichi Mochizuki claims to have proved the abc conjecture. Though you may have never heard of it, it's a powerful conjecture in number theory that would have millions of consequences, like:
• Only finitely many numbers of the form n(n+11)(n+111) are perfect cubes.
• Only finite many numbers of the form n! + 1111 are perfect squares.
• The equation x^a + y^b = z^c has only finitely many solutions if x,y,z are relatively prime positive integers and a,b,c are positive integers with 1/a+1/b+1/c < 1.
Here two positive integers are relatively prime if the largest integer dividing both of them is 1. Also, n is a positive integer. Also, we could replace the numbers 11, 111 and 1111 by any other integers if we wanted to!
I have no idea whether Mochizuki's proof is correct, and I couldn'... more »
2012-08-29 10:38:15 (11 comments, 9 reshares, 20 +1s)
New record for quantum computing.
15 has been factorized and the result is: 15=3*5
While this result is not revolutionary it was done a factor 10^15 faster
than normal computer-processors can do it and this factor will be the same
when factorizing higher numbers. This is why quantum computing will be
revolutionizing.
A minor detail is the result is only correct 50% of the times, but this is not important as it can be tested fast.
I estimate it will still take a decade at least before quantum prime factorization will be a threat to RSA encryption.
I also just noticed the RSA challenges are no longer active( http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2094#WhyIs ), so there goes an easy way to get rich :)
2012-08-17 07:07:01 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)
The discovery of a winning strategy for Prisoner's Dilemma is forcing game theorists to rethink their discipline. Their conclusion? Winning isn't everything. http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428920/the-emerging-revolution-in-game-theory
2012-08-16 09:33:09 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 19 +1s)
My new stress ball at work - I was the only one not having geek stuff on my table, until now.
The pattern at the poles are part of the C64 logo as well, it is just wrapped from 5 lines to 5 cirles.
Hand knitting by Lotte, girlfriend of +Peter Mouritsen
2012-07-15 20:03:45 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 12 +1s)
Check this impressive and informative interactive history of the internet. It was made last week but had slipped my attention until now.
I am a little surprised by the order of some of the events. For example that cookies was invented already in 1994 which was 1 year before javascript.
2012-07-14 08:16:18 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 8 +1s)
Sometimes when you read something and it sounds like gibberish, maybe it is because it really is...
We can clearly see that there is no bi-univocal correspondence between linear signifying links or archi-writing, depending on the author, and this multireferential, multi-dimensional machinic catalysis. The symmetry of scale, the transversality, the pathic non-discursive character of their expansion: all these dimensions remove us from the logic of the excluded middle and reinforce us in our dismissal of the ontological binarism we criticised previously.
And old, but brilliant book review by one of my heroes, Richard Dawkins.
Create your own nonsense articles.
The Postmodernism Generator can now be found at: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo
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Buttons
A special service of CircleCount.com is the following button.
The button shows the number of followers you have directly in a small button. You can add this button to your website, like the +1-Button of Google or the Like-Button of Facebook.
You can add this button directly in your website. For more information about the CircleCount Buttons and the description how to add them to another page click here.
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